Closed User Group Simulation
We visited the InnoTrans 2024 to get an update about the state of affairs regarding simulation in railway domain...
Halloween Special: Speed of Seasons
Yesterday it was still summer, now it is already autumn, and in some regions of the world nature is preparing for winter. It is impressive to see how fast seasonal mother nature is preparing for the next chapter. Have you asked yourself how fast this change happens?...
Light (and Dark) Summer Reading
Summer was in full swing and people left for vacation to try to get a break from the rat race… but you can’t escape geodata! Lately more and more people asking themselves is summer getting hotter or rainier...
Mapping Outside the Box
In our blog we often talk about geodata in the road domain. In the last years some interesting geodata from outside the box got released and we have a sneak peak into it...
Show the Flow
Sometimes it happens that huge cargo ships lose containers and their cargo re-emerges somewhere else. In principal this is waste polluting the oceans but it get's interesting if we know when and where the cargo got dropped and when and where it re-appeared...
Neglecting Accuracy
Public transport is part of our daily mobility business. But since some decades public transport is mapped in a schematic way. The question is why, because it started with geographically accurate representation...
Get Lost
The Russian government decided to start jamming the signals from the global positioning system in Moscow and side effects are impacting the Russian civilians...
Experts’ Voices: There’s more than 15 Minutes in one Hour
In February 2023 we had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Krajzewicz, researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR) to take a deep dive into one of his latest research topics: The 15-minute city...
Getting Support for New and Familiar
We had a look into the German research funding on automated driving topics because we had the feeling that something might be odd. We found overlaps and interesting as well as "interesting" projects among them...
To Build the Smartest and the most Interoperable Map in/about the World
Recently two announcements caught our attention: TomTom wants to build the smartest map in the world and the Linux Foundation wants to build interoperable open map data. Let’s look behind the scenes...